1928, the South and Al Smith?

[TommyC1776]

How come Al Smith didn't do well in the South as compared with previous Democrats?

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How come Al Smith didn't do well in the South as compared with previous Democrats?

They didn't like Catholics.

[TommyC1776]

How come Al Smith didn't do well in the South as compared with previous Democrats?

They didn't like Catholics.

o. ok.  So would the same have happened had he won the Dem nomination in 1932?  that he'd lose the South.

[Dr. Cynic]

Three reasons: He was Catholic, he was a Wet, and he was a Tammany Hall candidate.... These three things killed him.

[Nym90]

How come Al Smith didn't do well in the South as compared with previous Democrats?

They didn't like Catholics.

o. ok.  So would the same have happened had he won the Dem nomination in 1932?  that he'd lose the South.

Given how horrid the economy was, I think it's safe to say Smith would've swept the South in 1932, albeit by still far smaller margins than Roosevelt won.

Even in 1928 with the economy booming, he still won the South overall, he just did a lot worse than Democrats had done there since Reconstruction.

[Cubby]

Its interesting how Smith lost Texas, FL and the Upper South but still won the Deep South. Yet in other years, Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia were just as heavily Democrat as the Deep South.

[Beet]

I highly recommend V.O. Key's "Southern Politics in State and Nation" for a discussion of Smith's candidacy in the South in 1928.

[TommyC1776]

I highly recommend V.O. Key's "Southern Politics in State and Nation" for a discussion of Smith's candidacy in the South in 1928.

Where is that?

[NewFederalist]

I highly recommend V.O. Key's "Southern Politics in State and Nation" for a discussion of Smith's candidacy in the South in 1928.

Where is that?

Public library?